[1] Liquidnet is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Boston, Dublin, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto.
[2] Liquidnet was founded in April 2001 by Seth Merrin as a wholesale electronic marketplace where institutional investors could anonymously trade large blocks of stocks.
[5] In January 2010, Liquidnet announced a strategic investment in OTR Global LLC, a securities research and brokerage firm.
In May 2017, Liquidnet acquired OTAS Technologies, a market-leading analytics platform that delivers actionable market intelligence and context directly to institutional traders and portfolio managers.
[14] In December 2021, Liquidnet expanded the services it offered in fixed income and equities to different European countries, including France, Spain, Germany, and Denmark.
[28] Also that month, the Financial Times reported that activist hedge fund Phase 2 Partners was urging the parent company, TP ICAP, to sell itself.
[30] The company also announced a collaboration with NowCM, a system and infrastructure provider for primary debt markets, to speed up new issue workflow.